Uganda Trip Information

Uganda Global Medical Outreach

Blessings of Joy

In 2006, Blessings Of Joy opened its doors to the poor children mostly those orphaned by HIV/AIDS, with the Mweruka Primary School. In 2014 there were 360 students from age 4 through grade Primary 7 (ages 13-15). Our first teams visited this extremely impoverished school in 2012. While many improvements are seen yearly, much is needed to adequately provide care and assistance to these children and their teachers.

Mweruka is a remote village in the Kyanamukaaka Sub-County, in the Masaka district of Uganda. It is plagued with rampant poverty, malaria, and host of diseases caused by lack of nutrition, clean water and sanitation. The Mweruka Junior School was started by "Blessings Of Joy" to improve the lives of more children in the village. The school currently has no electricity and only basic sanitation facilities. In spite of these hardships, the students are excelling in Ugandan academic testing. Dedicated teachers, new classrooms with cement floors, new latrines, improved nutrition; vitamins and deworming are making a difference in the health and lives of these children.